MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - CORPORATION AND SECURITIES BUREAU

(FOR BUREAU USE ONLY)              FILED              Date Received
                                 OCT 21 1996           Oct 21 1996

EFFECTIVE DATE:

CORPORATION IDENTIFICATION NUMBER          426-410


ARTICLE OF INCORPORATION

OF

NWS MICHIGAN, INC.


     These Articles of  Incorporation  are executed by the  undersigned  for the
purpose of forming a profit  corporation  pursuant to the  provisions of the Act
284, Public Acts of 1972, as amended.

ARTICLE I

     The name of the corporation is:  NWS MICHIGAN, INC.

ARTICLE II

     The  purpose  for  which  the  corporation  is  formed  is to engage in any
activity  within the  purposes  for which  corporations  may be famed  under the
Business Corporation Act of Michigan, as it may be amended from time to time.

ARTICLE III

     Total authorized shares: 60,000 Common Shares.

ARTICLE IV

         The address of the registered office is:
         400 Renaissance Center
         Detroit, Michigan  48243

     The mailing  address of the  registered  office if different than above is:
Same as above.

     The name of the resident agent at the  registered  office is: Barbara Kaye,
Esq.






ARTICLE V

     The name and address of the incorporator is as follows:



                             
     NAME                       RESIDENCE OR BUSINESS ADDRESS

     Barbara Kaye, Esq.         400 Renaissance Center
                                Detroit, Michigan  48243



ARTICLE VI

     To the full extent  permitted by the Michigan  Business  Corporation Act or
any other  applicable laws presently or hereafter in effect,  no director of the
corporation  shall be personally  liable to the corporation or its  shareholders
for or with respect to any acts or omissions  in the  performance  of his or her
duties as a director  of the  corporation.  Any repeal or  modification  of this
Article VI shall not  adversely  affect any right or protection of a director of
the  corporation  existing  immediately  prior to, or for or with respect to any
acts or omissions occurring before, such repeal or modification.

ARTICLE VII

     Any action required or permitted by the Michigan  Business  Corporation Act
to be taken at an annual or special meeting of shareholders may be taken without
a meeting,  without  prior  notice,  and without a vote,  if before or after the
action, consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken are signed by the
holders of the  corporation's  shares having not less that the minimum number of
votes that would be  necessary  to  authorize or take the action at a meeting at
which all shares entitled to vote on the action were present and voted.

ARTICLE VIII

     When a  compromise  or  arrangement  or a plan  of  reorganization  of this
corporation is proposed  between this corporation and its creditors or any class
of them or between this corporation and its shareholders or any class of them, a
court  of  equity   jurisdiction  within  the  State,  on  application  of  this
corporation  or of a creditor or  shareholder  thereof,  or on  application of a
receiver appointed for the corporation,  may order a meeting of the creditors or
class  of  creditors  or of the  shareholders  or class  of  shareholders  to be
affected by the proposed  compromise or  arrangement  or  reorganization,  to be
summoned  in  such  manner  as  the  court  directs.  If a  majority  in  number
representing  3/4 in value of the  creditors  or class of  creditors,  or of the
shareholders or class of shareholders to be affected by the proposed  compromise
or  arrangement  or a  reorganization,  agree to a compromise,  arrangement or a
reorganization  of  this  corporation  as a  consequence  of the  compromise  or
arrangement, the compromise or arrangement and the reorganization, if sanctioned
by the court to which the application has been made, shall be binding on all the
creditors  or  class  of  creditors,  or on all the  shareholders  or  class  of
shareholders and also on this corporation.





     IN WITNESS WHEREOF,  the  undersigned,  the incorporator of the above-named
corporation  has executed  these Articles of  Incorporation  on this 18th day of
October, 1996.


                                        /s/ Barbara Kaye
                                        ---------------------------------------
                                        Barbara Kaye, Esq.

Prepared by and after filing return to:

Barbara Kaye, Esq.
Dykema Gossett PLLC
400 Renaissance Center
Detroit, Michigan  48243